by Rene Reid | Aug 2, 2016 | CCRI News
(Vatican Radio) In the course of a dialogue during a meeting with the participants in the Plenary Assembly of Superiors General, which took place in May, Pope Francis expressed his intention to “establish an official commission that could study the question” of the... by Rene Reid | Jul 24, 2016 | Responses to Newsletters
Dear Rene and other co-signatories, These are important questions you raise (Newsletter, 12 July 2016) that I’ve been trying to get my head around for perhaps a decade or more, even discussing them quite a number of times with Bob Kaiser. In our country (Australia),... by Rene Reid | Jul 12, 2016 | Newsletters
To representatives of Church Reform Organizations: We’d like to explore ways that we might work together to bring about the reform that we are all striving to create. Even though each of our groups have differing missions focused on specific issues, there are... by Rene Reid | Jul 5, 2016 | New Zealand
by Ann Gilroy RSJ Women Religious welcome any development in Church that responds to women’s repeated call to have an equal share in the decision-making. Pope Francis’s proposal to set up a Commission to study the possibility of having women deacons, while not yet a... by Rene Reid | Jul 5, 2016 | Australia
how it should occur, and why this is important by Peter Wilkinson The Diocese of Melbourne was established in 1847. It became an archdiocese in 1874. To date, it has had 8 archbishops. The first three were Irish: James Goold (1848-1886), Thomas Carr (1886-1917),...